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...source edited by the public. The dispute between individuals over the content of a Wikipedia entry produces “something of quality,” Klein said. “It’s the kind of discourse you don’t get in any other medium,” he added. An audience member, who works as a librarian, disagreed saying that for controversial topics, Wikipedia creates a “battling for middle ground that represents nothing.” Weinberger also remarked that this process of discussion affects what types of people are successful...
...past could be pardoned for not paying much attention to the future. Lucas refers to himself as "retired"-meaning, he explains, he has no more Star Wars movies to make. Yet, as these excerpts from our two-hour phone conversation indicate, he has thought a lot about where the medium is going, or where it ought to go. He wants the movie industry to move at the pace his mind does: warp speed...
...Yeah, after the TV series, I?m going to do my own little movies. The stuff I?m thinking about it has to do with pushing the vocabulary in the medium. Basically, you have to accept the fact that it?s going to be the land of THX (the movie), and worse...
...sadly, it's the inevitable medium. I think that certainly it's right around the corner. Dreamworks certainly recognizes the tens of millions of dollars that will be saved in distribution costs in not having to make five, six, seven thousand 35mm prints, just in the domestic market, for a big event movie. I think someday, when digital technology mainstreams, films will be broadcast to satellites from one transmission depot and then be beamed down into thousands of venues, which will save hundreds of millions of dollars when you combine every studio that releases movies on film, that have...
That's one future of movies--IMAX-size extravaganzas you can see only in a movie house. It's a throwback to the Cinerama and CinemaScope the studios used against the first home-viewing medium...